by Allen Frederick

Created on: October 13, 2008

Do not move an ancient boundary marker

that your ancestors set in place.

Prov 22:28 (GW)

{Like} a city broken into {and} left without a wall,

{so} is a person who lacks self-control.

Prov 25:28 (GW)

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered. Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Source: Philippicoe (II, 27)

The removal of the commandments from a society is like buidling a house without walls or putting sheep in a sheep pen without any fences. Frederick

Today's youth are surrounded by a vast wasteland of open spaces with no fences or boundaries. Our society's efforts to remove all barriers to one's "self awareness" and "self expression" has rendered our children lost in a maze of choices. Each choice is held as equal to the other, none holding any merit as a better choice because having the right to choose is more important than choosing right.

We would never send a toddler out in the deep forest without a guide yet we are leaving our young people to wander around in this vast wasteland of choices with no boundaries.

If anyone can do whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it, wherever they desire to do it, then we, as a society, has lost our moorings, and like a ship without a rudder we are adrift on life's seas.

One must have a anchor point, a boundary, a place where there is no tresspassing allowed. Just as with the first humans who graced this planet we too have been overtaken in our lawlessness from an unbridled greed and lust for more.

When there is no one to say no then we never learn the value of restraint. We never learn to appreciate that which does not belong to us. We never learn to appreciate the need to ask before taking or to respect the limits set by others.

A casual observer may scratch their collective heads wondering what in the world we are thinking, or which course of action we choose to be the right course. In our day of relativeness and no absolutes anything anyone wants to do is acceptable as long as they can justify their actions with themselves.

Rules like thou shalt not covet' or thou shalt not steal' are completely
ignored because we reason if we can acquire it then it belongs to us. Society has done all it can to rewrite or remove the prohibitions to self satisfaction.

Crashing the borders to get to where we want to be without regard to the occupants of that said place is just plan selfish and self serving.

A society nor a people can long survive if they do not limit themselves from their shameful lust for more and coveting what others

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